The 108 emergency ambulance services were started in Odisha on March 5, 2013, and till now 624 ambulances are providing free services to the people of 30 districts across the state. Along with this, 6 boat ambulances are also working.
The vessel, MT Xante, was on passage from UAE to Chennai. A medical distress was received by Maritime Rescue Coordination Centre Mumbai from the MT Xante, it said.
Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Thursday lauded the launch of the state's first Vande Bharat Express train by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and said that it is one step closer towards the aspiration of Bullet trains in the country.
Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Monday inaugurated the exhibition titled "Sustain: the Craft Idiom" at Kala Bhoomi in Bhubaneswar on the sideline of the 2nd G20 Culture Working Group meeting.
Personnel from both navies engaged in a wide range of professional interactions, cross-deck visits and friendly sports exchanges. Training sessions on Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief (HADR) and firefighting were also conducted.
It is pertinent to note that the CM made a commitment back in June 2022 during the Odisha Investors' Meet held in Dubai to establish international flight connectivity between Odisha and Dubai in the first phase.
Odisha's Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Sunday announced the creation of 14 special development councils for the preservation and propagation of tribal culture and unique identity of all tribal groups in different districts of Odisha, said an official statement on Sunday.
Slain Odisha Minister Naba Kishore Das's daughter Dipali Das, whom the Biju Janata Dal (BJD) fielded in the constituency of her father, emerged victorious with a margin of 48,721 votes in the Jharsuguda by-election.
Addressing the party workers in Bhubaneswar, the BJD president said, "It's not important if it is a single-engine or double-engine government. What's important from the people's point of view is that there should be good governance. Pro-people governance always wins."
Chinese naval flotilla led by a powerful destroyer has been on a 12-day circumnavigation of Japan's main islands and it comes as leaders of the Group of Seven prepare to meet in Japan beginning May 19.
An accused in an alleged communal incident during the Ram Navami procession in Mumbai's Malad on Friday approached the Bombay High Court, seeking have an FIR against him quashed.